fre-respec

free re-speccing also taps into the realms of might be good to change

the race through the campaign with one build then play another results in the same

i leveled a build easy to level and swapped into a high level mage

I ' don't think it's correct, and i think POE 2 will lose players at a faster rate because of it,

essentially instead of having to spend the time to test builds players can just re-spec,

after they have tested everything they want to, my bet is they will quit.

in some games there is a lot of rep that comes with playing certain classes / builds.

Yeah heres a big problem, as a witch , it is NEVER a good idea to level as a infernalist, never, it is always 100% a better idea to level as a lich and then maybe after you have bypassed all risk swap into an infernalist,

that is 100% lame.

By re-spec you mean Ascendancy change or passives tree gold costs?

btw. I leveled Infernalist on HCSSF. Bad idea or not it was just as easy as on any other spec.

I don't think anyone leaves because of no free re-spec, whichever you meant.

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after they have tested everything they want to, my bet is they will quit.

This argument works literally against free re-spec.
And its solution is not in easing the re-spec, but in adding more top-tier content.